Group item auditions

Hello! here are the people who have passed the group item auditions.

1) Vincent
2) Yanting, Matilda, Wang Shu
3) Jiajun
4) Yongchuan, Vivien, Denyse
5) Yingzhi, Alicia, Cheryl
6) Ziran

To ensure that you are more prepared for the concert, there will be a trial or run-through on next monday 7th april at 3.30pm, venue tentatively e202. Don't worry it's not an audition!

Congratulations and jiayou! :)

Audition Dates

Hi everyone,

Here are some updates for the audition dates. There are three auditions altogether currently. Please take note of their dates below.

1. Group Item Audition - 31 March, Monday

This will the last chance given to groups that have come up with an item for concert and yet still have not gone through auditions.

2. "Probation Period" Audition - 2 April, Wednesday

This audition is only liable for these people named below.
Qian Xiang
Ningxin
Jianan
Ryan
Yujing
Hao Xiang

Please note that it has been brought forward from 4 April, Friday, to 2 April, Wednesday. Do inform either Denyse or me, Yingzhi, if you have any valid reason to be absent for it. This audition will be the last round of auditions given for the 5 J2 ensemble pieces (i.e. Shan Liang, Morenita, Samba, Lambada, Spring's Message).

3. Bouree Audition - 5 April, Saturday

As there will be practice on this coming Saturday, 5 April, the audition for Bouree will be conducted during that practice. This will also be the one and only audition given for Bouree, as all concert items will be confirmed by latest next week.

Please ignore the previous audition dates given in previous posts, as these are the most updated ones.

That will be all. Thank you.

Reauditions for J2s

Hello!

Next friday, 4th April, will be the reauditions for

• those who are on probation
• those who are learning bourree and want to perform for concert

The songs for the reaudition will be the same as the previous audition: Shan Liang, Morenita, Samba, Lambada, Spring Message.

For those who don't pass the reaudition, it is not guaranteed that you will be going to backstage for concert, but as long as you have evidently put in lots of effort for this audition, it would be ok for you to help out in backstage.

jiayou! :)

ps. 101st post leh! hmm lol

Attn: J1s and J2s

Hi everyone, the final group item audition will be this friday 28th of March. If you have a group item / solo item that hasn't gone through audition before, please do so by this fri. Do sms me to arrage a time before or after training for the audition. Thanks.

(for those who've alr gone through audition ignore this msg)


J1s are strongly encouraged to form into groups and perform group items too. If you're interested but need more time for various reasons (j1s/j2s), msg me to let me know as we need to finalize the order of the concern soon. Thanks.

LESSONS TMR (24th March)

Hi! There are lessons as usual on Monday, 24th March for those under Mr. Shi and Ms Neo. Pple under yc, no lessons until next week.

Please go to your respective venues EARLY or ON TIME, and rmb to collect footstools and music stands.

People who are supposed to take attendance please rmb to do so. Ty =)

Lessons on Monday

Hi. Just a quick update for lessons tml.

I've called a few of you to help so here is wht will happen tml.


Melody - will station herself outside guitar room to open the room at 3
Yan Jun - (Ms Neo's 3-4pm grp will come and get the foot stools)
Ms Neo's 4-5 from. bring the footstool to Mrshi's class room (yu lei)



Mr Shi's 4-5 grp will come get their stuff
and 5.10 to 6.10 grp put back. (Kewei)

For those without guitars come before ur lesson time to the area outside guitar room. either melody or kewei will be there. thanks!

Lessons Lessons Lessons

There are lessons tmr on 17th March EXCEPT for those under yongchuan (due to blocks!)

1) Some changes in groupings (only 1 or 2)
2) People whose name has a ** to it, you will be I/C of TAKING ATTENDANCE for your group during music lessons. On wed trainings, pls pass the attendance to me for recording. Thank you.
3) ** THOSE UNDER YONG CHUAN NO LESSONS TMR**
4) As the J2s will be having blocks, you will not be using footstools/music stands tmr. So please turn up in the classroom at LEAST 5 min early to move the tables etc. Try not to be late for lessons. The last group please rmb to MOVE EVERYTHING BACK.
5) NO NEED to put your guitars in the guitar room tmr, cos no one will be ard to open it!

Lessons will be in the classrooms E301 and E303. Any enquiries pls contact 91723524 (vivien) or pokefreakz@hotmail.com (msn)


Group 1 (3 – 4 pm) – Yongchuan
Wei Han 08S7B**
Melody 08A10
Tricia 08S71
Desiree 08S6J
Jia Yi 08S6D

Group 2 ( 3 - 4 pm) - Ms Ester Neo
Tzinwai 08S78 **
Feng Lin 08S75
Yisan 08S78
Yulin 08S63
Yan Jun 08S70

Group 3 (4 - 5 pm) - Ms Ester Neo
Jeremy 08S6F**
Meng Yuan 08S7B
Su Xiang 08S77
Yu Lei 08S65
Nicolette 08A10
Gloria 08S67

Group 4 (4.10 – 5.10 pm) Yongchuan
Dujing 08S6G**
Tuan Anh 08S6T
Zhao Rui 08S6H
Libo 08A12
Cheyenne 08S6D
Melissa 08S78

Group 5 ( 4 – 5 pm) Mr Shi
Jess 08A14**
Zi Ran 08A12
Winnie 08S76
David 08S72
Elissa 08S77

Group 6 ( 5.15 – 6.15 pm) Yongchuan
Huan Ting 08A14**
Yuhan 08S63
Zi Yang 08S6N
Lisa 08S7B
Zhi Ying 08A15

Group 7 ( 5.10 – 6.10 pm) Mr Shi
Rhea 08S74**
Si Hao 08S6F
Lowell 08S74
Kewei 08S77
Zhengshan 08S76

Random Rantings

LOL. i realise i'm like blogging most of the time. totally hogging the blog. ohwells.

anyway. WOW OUR FIRST INFORMAL POST. LOL. so cool. thanks kyna! eh ppl post more la. btw guitar v emo meh O.o okay la. don't set up wht emo guitar club luh! we can have hcguitar-emo section -.- and throw all the emo ppl instead. so awesome. volunteers? xD

haiz. blocks. why am i online at this unearthly hour. cos somebody msg me and dragged me online but in the end that person is like totally ignoring me and rushing to sch =/ i wanna slp!

smthing amazing happened today. i decided to do my 2nd tutorial. uh ya. in my whole jc life. i'm halfway through it alr! (:

p.s. pls don't end up like me. it sucks.



alrite! that person has gone to sch. i can go slp liao -.- nights! xD



paiseh did i mention that this post will be super random? >< its okay you only wasted 1 min of ur life reading it xD

GUITAR LESSONS

Hi here's the UPDATED AT 10PM groupings! Reminder: Lessons in the 5-6pm slot will now be from 5.10pm - 6.10pm! ALSO, THERE IS A SHIFT IN GROUPINGS, current GROUP 2 please take note, as Ms Ester Neo can only make it from 3-5pm, your group will be shifted up to 3-4pm. IF YOU CANNOT MAKE IT ON A NORMAL MONDAY SCHOOL DAY PLEASE INFORM ME TMR, THANK YOU.

Lessons will be in the usual classrooms E201, E301 and E303. Any enquiries pls contact 91723524 (vivien) or pokefreakz@hotmail.com (msn)

**** THERE ARE LESSONS TOMORROW aka 10TH MARCH 2008****

Group 1 (3 – 4 pm) – Yongchuan
Melody 08A10
Tricia 08S71
Desiree 08S6J
Jia Yi 08S6D
Wei Han 08S7B
Zi Ran 08A12

Group 2 ( 3 - 4 pm) - Ms Ester Neo
Yisan 08S78
Feng Lin 08S75
Yulin 08S63
Yan Jun 08S70
Tzinwai 08S78

Group 3 (4 - 5 pm) - Ms Ester Neo
Meng Yuan 08S7B
Su Xiang 08S77
Jeremy 08S6F
Yu Lei 08S65
Nicolette 08A10
Gloria 08S67

Group 4 (4.10 – 5.10 pm) Yongchuan
Dujing 08S6G
Tuan Anh 08S6T
Zhao Rui 08S6H
Libo 08A12
Cheyenne 08S6D

Group 5 ( 4 – 5 pm) Mr Shi
Melissa 08S78
Winnie 08S76
Jess 08A14
David 08S72
Elissa 08S77

Group 6 ( 5.15 – 6.15 pm) Yongchuan
Yuhan 08S63
Huan Ting 08A14
Zi Yang 08S6N
Lisa 08S7B
Zhi Ying 08A15

Group 7 ( 5.10 – 6.10 pm) Mr Shi
Si Hao 08S6F
Lowell 08S74
Rhea 08S74
Kewei 08S77
Zhengshan 08S76

No guitar practice tmr, j1 lessons as usual.

Hi everyone,

there will be NO GUITAR PRACTICE TOMORROW, MONDAY 10TH MARCH 2008.

HOWEVER, for J1s taking lessons, LESSONS ARE ON AS USUAL.

Thanks! :D Good luck for blocks-mugging!

Tuners + Guitar tee

Hey J1s!

For those who ordered tuners, please bring $16 on Monday. (Will try to reduce the price but just bring $16)

Melody
Nicolette
Libo
Jess
Zhi Ying
Yu Han
Yu Lei
Jeremy
Sheena
Tuan Anh
Tricia
Jonathan
Lowell
Winnie
Su Xiang
Yisan
Melissa
Wei Han

Next, for those who haven't paid the extra $1 for guitar tee or haven't paid for it at all, please pay by Monday. It costs $13 btw.

Lastly, did anyone find a tuner in the front pocket of your guitar bag? If you do, please return to me. Thanks! (:

Enjoy your holidays(:

Alicia

HELLO!!! WHOOHOO. GUITAR ROCKS XD Kewei and I were thinking of setting up an Emo Guitar Club. HC's guitar club non-rivals. haha. I realise that a lot of people associate guitar with emo. Quite sad, cos there's definitely more to it than just that. Anyway, hope that J1s get to know one another better! x) Happy March hols!

blogblog!

HELO! HAHA. ok sorry. i shall be serious. anyway. j1s shd have received an invite to join the blog by now so join and start blogging ba. sorry we didnt have all of ur emails in time. anyway i'm still missing a few of your emails so email me your email so that i can add u in! yupp (:

AND TO SENIORS OUT THERE. or rather. great grand seniors. YES U DANIEL (:

LOL

okay nvm. for seniors / grand seniors / great grand seniors / xGreat grand seniors /xxgreat grand seniors blahblahblah, if u wanna join in do email me your email and no or smthing so that i can verify that you're not some. i dno. mas selamat.


Random story : Went for some concert at esplanade today and met this guy who happens to be our senior's senior's senior. His name is daniel. He POKES at our blog. he's in our facebook grp! (ohya do join!) and he loves all of us!

He's the ex,ex,ex head MI -.-


have fun prac-ing ppl. For those in my section call me if u nid help with ur parts. or i dno. i'll be in school from ard 2+ on mon (will be going down to test the new guitars before that) so if u wan can come earlier to teach u all the remaining part. paiseh! jiayou (:

Guitar Lesson Changes

Hi All! Here are some changes made to the guitar lessons. Sorry for the hiccups in the 1st lesson. The groups have been re-arranged mostly according to your background (music, guitar etc) to facilitate easier and faster learning. Do take note that lessons in the 5-6pm slot will now be from 5.10pm - 6.10pm! Please remember to bring your guitars, and lessons will be in the usual classrooms E201, E301 and E303. Any enquires, objections to the groups :S pls contact 91723524 (vivien) or pokefreakz@hotmail.com (msn). Thank u!

Group 1 (3 – 4 pm) – Yongchuan
Melody 08A10
Tricia 08S71
Desiree 08S6J
Jia Yi 08S6D
Wei Han 08S7B
Zi Ran 08A12

Group 2 (4 – 5 pm)
Meng Yuan 08S7B
Jeremy 08S6F
Kewei 08S77
Yu Lei 08S65
Nicolette 08A10

Group 3 (4 – 5 pm) Yongchuan
Dujing 08S6G
Tuan Anh 08S6T
Zhao Rui 08S6H
Libo 08A12
Cheyenne 08S6D

Group 4 ( 4 – 5 pm) Mr Shi
Melissa 08S78
Winnie 08S76
Jess 08A14
David 08S72
Elissa 08S77

Group 5 ( 5.10 – 6.10 pm) Yongchuan
Yuhan 08S63
Huan Ting 08A14
Zi Yang 08S6N
Lisa 08S7B
Zhi Ying 08A15

Group 6 ( 5.10 – 6.10 pm) Mr Shi
Si Hao 08S6F
Lowell 08S74
Rhea 08S74
Su Xiang 08S77
Zhengshan 08S76

Group 7 ( 5.10 – 6.10 pm)
Yisan 08S78
Feng Lin 08S75
Yulin 08S63
Yan Jun 08S70

Lessons (Part 2) - For everyone

Hi again!

Again, apologizing for whatever went wrong that day and rest assured that it wont happen again. So please take note of the following.

1) Lessons will be scheduled such that there will be a 10mins break in between each lesson.

i.e. 4-5pm
5.10-6.10pm

Unless otherwise stated, lessons will go on as per normal (i.e. sch holidays etc.) don't think of it as part of guitar training. its not. Lessons were started in school to make it convenient for most of you as taking lessons outside will
1)not be economical
2)require more travelling time
3)continue even during important periods like blocks and promos


And lessons are not introduced to make ur life miserable. It was clearly stipulated that it is necessary for all guitar ensemble members to take lessons.

Therefore, please take your lessons seriously. It is ultimately between you and the teacher, and the club is only here to help liaise and provide logistics.

2) Girls

We'll be using foot stools for ALL training and lessons from today onwards (2.42am 5th March) Therefore, we strongly appeal to all girls on the grounds of modesty to wear shorts instead of skirts. or rather. Anything except skirts. If you feel that it is ok if you're wearing shorts underneath then go ahead. If not, bring something to change? don't ask me! you're the girl.

3) Music stands, Footstools

Ok this is really an appeal. When you go get ur guitar from guitar room or simply before every training, please go up to guitar room to get 1 footstool and 1 music stand for urself. And return them to the guitar room when training has ended. Is better if everyone can help to carry their own necessary equipments down for training rather than trouble some ppl to sai gang and do a whooping 10kg weights-cum-footstools. Taking 1 footstool and music stand by yourself should be quite manageable but if you need help please ask ok.

4) Club Guitars

2 Club Guitars were confiscated on monday as they were found at the classbench. Zhu Ge has already warned that club guitars should NOT be placed at the class benches. We're ok if its your own guitar, after all its your own property (though we stronglystronglystrongly discourage it cos you'll find all sorts of people molesting ur guitar). I believe the reason why we got so put off was because those with their own guitars placed them faithfully in the guitar room; those with the club guitars on the other hand chose not to. Its really like not appreciating that guitar and not recognising that that guitar is owned by the school.

We've already talked to the respective individuals and heard their explanations. If you happen to be late that day, and still want to put ur guitar in the room, do call either Zhu Ge, Chen Sin or me (in order of preference x). We hope that you'll treat the guitars loaned to you as your own and really take care of it. If this gets out of hand we might have to permanently confiscate the rented guitars, resulting in the misery of both parties (1 more than the other) and the necessity of you to get your own guitar. The bottomline - pleaseplease treasure that piece of wood and take care of it.


5) Training

I hate to touch on this cos its a general consensus and i really believe that you guys are a wonderful and awesome bunch of people. BUT, there are some people who choose to pon training, come in e x t r a late or do dno wht. Its okay if you've got a valid excuse, take and get the leave form signed (btw its not valid until a complete version gets passed back to ur MI). Ok EVEN with the leave form, i'm ok if you're like slightlyslightly late once in a blue moon? just tell ur mi when u reach or smthing its not like we'll wallop you. we're students too alright we also know how thrilling it is to pon lec_u_es and t_to_ria_s, but somethings its just responsibility on our part. as thrilling as it may get and be afterwards when you're discovered, some things need to be taken seriously. Including training. I was told once when someone strolled into the guitar room 45mins after training had started to get his/her guitar. and that person claimed that that's cos attendance isn't taken. Seriously man.

Anyway, cheryl can be taking attendance anytime during the training. And she can only go back to j2 training after taking attendance so rest assured it will be early. IF your attendance isn't captured cos you're late or smthing, don't blame anyone later if you don't hit the % required for cca attendance.





Alright thats all for now. I'm terribly sorry if i just made ur day sad and emo. There are somethings that need to be addressed and i hope that i don't ever have to repeat them. Thanks.



p.s try not to feel too emo ok? if you're really emo until wanna die type its okay, you can think of me and be happy xD



Cheers! (:
yc

Lessons! (for those under me)

Hello! A quick update for those who had lessons under me.

First, i've to apologize for the zonked out state that i was in that day. Quite a lot went wrong that day so had to go settle. paiseh! wont happen next week alr.

Ok anyway, i've decided to post on the blog (i know i'm kinda abusing it >< ) things that you're suppose to do by the next lesson in case i wasn't clear.

1. LOOK at ur right hand
2. After looking at ur right hand, LOOK at ur left hand

ok den start practising x)

3. Familiarize all ur open strings, (EADGBE) and their respective representation on the treble clef (i.e. make sure u can sight read after that)
4. Finish on andante on the first string (first 2 lines of the piece) - aka know all the notes there too and respective position on the guitar and memorize



So basically, these are the things u all shd noe by now.

1) All your theory component
- Crotchet, Minim, Quavers etc
- Rests
- Clefs
- Time Signature
- Key Signature

2) Notes and where to play them on the guitar
- Open Strings - E A D G B E
- F and G from andante on the first string


3) Right and Left hand
- How ur right hand shd be (double triangles and all)
- Left hand, thumb position, hole in between and fingertips

4) Finger naming
- R.H pimach
- L.H 1 (index), 2, 3, 4

yupp. if you dno come look for me or any of ur classmates. Thanks.

Btw u guys got Mr Shi's notes too. eh. read through la. if what u can understand, understand. What u cannot understand, just don't confuse yourself too much. yupp. alright have fun practising (:


p.s. andante is played using rest stroke. prac etude if you want we'll touch on that later, and etude is played using thumb-free stroke.

GUITAR LESSONS

HELLO! Here're the groupings. Sorry for the delay due to some miscommunication :S Lessons will start TOMORROW 3rd March 2008. Please refer to the groupings below and the timeslot allocated. The classrooms will be: E201, E301, E303. Please bring your own guitars!

If you cannot make it for that timeslot (you shld have informed us beforehand ><), please SMS/call 91723524 (vivien). Or if you have any questions/problems with the grouping ><. Yup, thanks!

Group 1 (3 – 4 pm) Yongchuan

Melody 08A10

Tricia 08S71

Desiree 08S6J

Jia Yi 08S6D

Wei Han 08S7B

Group 2 (4 – 5 pm)

Si Hao 08S6F

Jeremy 08S6F

Kewei 08S77

Yu Lei 08S65

Nicolette 08A10

Group 3 (4 – 5 pm) Yongchuan

Dujing 08S6G

Tuan Anh 08S6T

Melissa 08S78

Zi Ran 08A12

Winnie 08S76

Group 4 ( 4 – 5 pm) Mr Shi

Jess 08A14

Cheyenne 08S6D

Libo 08A12

Meng Yuan 08S7B** (edited)

Rhea 08S74

Group 5 ( 5 – 6 pm) Yongchuan

Yuhan 08S63

Huan Ting 08A14

Zi Yang 08S6N

Lisa 08S7B

Lowell 08S74

Group 6 ( 5 – 6 pm)

Zhi Ying 08A15

Su Xiang 08S77

Zhengshan 08S76

Yan Jun 08S70

David 08S72

Group 7 ( 5 – 6 pm) Mr Shi

Elissa 08S77

Yisan 08S78

Zhao Rui 08S6H** (edited)

Feng Lin 08S75

Yulin 08S63

J1&2s : Update to pieces

Hi everyone. its uh. very late alr so i shall try to keep this short so i can go erm. slp x)

This post is about some updated fingerings / info / recordings and wht not for ur pieces.

The new piece for j2s is Bourree by Bach and j1s Gavotte also by Bach (: Not a coincidence. I'm hoping that we can play more Baroque pieces cos they're pretty simple in terms of expression and its charm usually lies in its sequences and all, notes basically. Plus baroque pieces usually don't require sustain - which can both be a blessing and a curse on the guitar.

Sorry if the post is abit. robotic. i'm kinda brain dead.

Anyway. the thing is that if we don't have to sustain, it saves us alot of trouble in terms of fingering and all, but it also means that when we play open strings or "ringing notes", extra effort has to be made to ensure that no unnecessary sustains are present. Shall elaborate more below.


J2s
Try not to have every1 learning guitar 1 ><



The recordings for the various parts are here.

Guitar 1


Guitar 2


Guitar 3


Guitar 4




Guitar 1. The fingering is kinda tricky so lets standardize the fingering (in order of notes and which fingers to use). comma refers to bar line

1 3, 4 3 1 1(slide) 2 4, 2 (2nd string) 4 (2nd) 1 2 4(slide) 2, 1 4 (2nd string) 2(2nd) 1(2nd) 2 4, 1 4 2 1 0

take note that the open e is played on the 2nd string. thanks ( to prevent ringing notes)

o and try to add vibratos for all the crotchet notes. uh a slowed down version of it can be dl-ed here.




Guitar 3s play your open B on the 3rd string to prevent ringing notes (i.e. 4 3 4 4 3 (2nd string) etc)


J1s
The recordings for the various parts are here.

Guitar 1


Guitar 2


Guitar 3

if you look further you'll realise that ultimately you'll have to learn all of the parts. cos they kinda switch at the back. Things to take note for the various parts.




Guitar 1 : nth much. just make it smooth and don't chop the melody up like ode to joy. yupp (:





Guitar 2 : Take care of ur rests. if theres a rest there, make sure there is no sound. like totally 0. take care of ur sparkies too ( ur MI will tell u more next training)





Guitar 3: eh. what can i say? practise more >< anyway, i dno for u guys but if you look at bar 7, the 4th note (i.e. the crotchet E with the fingering 2), it works better for me if i use finger 4 instead and slide to the next note it. yupp. sorry i know i kinda promised to record for you all but ended up recording every single part -.- lol okay jiayou anyway. have fun practising (:





and btw. you can hear the gavotte (solo version) here. try to burn the melody into ur brain or smthing. yupp.




k thats all for now. shall go slp. nights (: